Posts Tagged Yarmouk

“It is unprecedented in living memory for a UN-assisted population to be subject to abject desperation in this way and the sheer humanitarian facts cry out for a response.” United Nations Relief and Works Agency spokesman Chris Gunness, speaking about the current situation in the Yarmouk Palestinian […]

A banner from the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in Damascus, following a regime air strike on a food distribution centre: “We refuse bread soaked with our blood.” An air strike by Syrian regime forces on 23 March 2014 targeted people queuing for food parcels at an […]

This photo, taken by the UN in Syria and widely published by the media across the world, shows the residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus rushing to receive food baskets distributed by the UN. The camp has been besieged by Syrian regime forces since July […]

Syrian-Palestinian activists have published heart-breaking photos of Syrian-Palestinian children dying from starvation and malnutrition in the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus due to the deadly siege imposed by the regime forces for the last 170 days. According to the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, 30 Syrian-Palestinians […]

The picture below is (what used to be) the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee ‘camp’ in Damascus. The Assad regime has killed more Palestinians in Syria than the 65 years of Israeli Apartheid in occupied Palestine.